Tag: Emiliano Sala

By Robson Sharuko Twice, in just one dramatic day, he missed two flights to Manchester to compete the biggest deal of his career — a two-and-a-half year £11.62 million switch from Portsmouth to the Citizens, in one of the most bizarre deadline day transfers in world football history. Former Manchester City striker Benjani Mwaruwari Benjani Mwaruwari is said to have slipped into a deep sleep at a Southampton airport that January day, in the winter of 2008 and, on two occasions, missed his two flights to fly north to Manchester…

French football star Kylian Mbappe has donated £27,000 to a fundraising appeal set up by the family of missing pilot David Ibbotson. Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was flying Cardiff City’s Emiliano Sala from Nantes to the UK when their plane crashed near Guernsey on 21 January. Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was flying Cardiff City’s Emiliano Sala from Nantes to the UK when their plane crashed near Guernsey on 21 January. The footballer’s body was recovered from the wreck on the seabed, but Mr Ibbotson’s body has not been…

By Aaron Flanagan | The Mirror | Investigators have confirmed that the body of Emiliano Sala has been recovered from the wreckage of his plane that went missing last month. The wreckage of the plane carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala seen here in the English Channel A body was pulled from the aircraft, which was found on the bottom of the ocean north of Guernsey, earlier this week. The plane, which was carrying Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, disappeared off the radar around 8:30pm on January 21, as the Cardiff…

On Feb 3, 2019 0 0 By Tom Gillespie | Sky News | The plane that was carrying the missing Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala has been found, his family has been told. Emiliano Sala A search boat located the wreckage on the seabed of the English Channel this morning. The Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared from radars close to the Channel Islands on 21 January. Related Articles Both pilot David Ibbotson and the 28-year-old Argentinian footballer are missing presumed dead. Sala had just completed a £15m transfer to Cardiff City…

Premier League club Cardiff City’s record new signing, Argentina-born striker Emiliano Sala, was on board a light aircraft that disappeared over the English Channel on Monday night, police sources told AFP. Emiliano Sala Sala, signed by Cardiff on Saturday from French club Nantes for a reported 17 million euro ($19.3 million) fee, was flying to Cardiff aboard a small plane that disappeared from radars around 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Guernsey, sources confirmed on condition of anonymity. A statement from police on Guernsey, a British island just off the…